Rotating gearing.



- A. G.- Tomsxcx.

ROTATING cums. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6, 1912.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914;

ATTURZY WITNESSES:

40 object to be cut in position. The head 6 is ANTONE enonen 'romsrcx,or PUEBLO, conomno, ASSIGNOR 'ro JOSEPH TOMSICK, JR,

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Li r, 31, 1914,

Application filed J'un'e 5, 1912. Serial No. 101,756.

To all whom it. may concern Be it known thatI, AN'roNn sIoK,-a citizenof the United States, residing at Pueblo, Colorado, have inventedcertain new and usefullmprovements in Rotating Gearingof which thefollowing is a specifi-- cation.

My invention relates to improvements in rotating cutter gearing; and theobjects are to provide a rotating cutter gearing that will slice dough,vegetables, orother things by means of the rotating knives, and toautomatically-space the thickness of the slices, and other objects whichwill more fully appear in the specifications. I attaint-hese o jects bythe mechanisms illustrated in the accornpanyingdrawings, in which Figure1 is an end elevat on v1ew showing the knives; Fig. 2 is a longitudinalbroken cross sectional view showing the screw drivmg means and release;Fig. 3. is a top plan View; Fig. 4 is a detailed view of the split ,nutdevice; and Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view through the line AB of Fig.4.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several drawings.

A box or case 1 is provided and may be I placed on the legs 20 ifdesired. The side or the top of the box or case may be hinged with thehinges 10 so that the same may be opened up for various purposes. Thedriving screw 3 has the end crank 2 at one end,

and the other end 4 is adapted for the attachment of the knives 8, whichknives are attached to a common disk for the purpose.

The nut 4 is designed to hold the knife disk in position. On one side ofthe box the tube '5 is adapted to receive the dough, vegetables or otherthing that is to be cut. A spring 7 is attached to the top 21 so as tohold the designed to fit the trough 5 and has attached thereto thedriving nut 11. The driving nut 11 is composed of the fixed part.12,pro- GEORGE Tom 13. The interior surface 14 in pivoted jaw 13 is screwthreaded. The channel 17 extends between the parts 12 and 13. Theseparator 17 with cone shaped ends is adjusted to fit into the space17*. A spring 19 is provided at the knife end to engage with one end ofthe spreader 17. A guard 9 may be merely a rim or may be a solid back,to protect the operator from any injury. The knives are so adjusted asto come in close contact with the open end of the trough 5. While I haveshown but four knives a lesser or greater number may be used, and plateshaving difi'erent numbers of knives may be furnished with the device. a

The article to be slicedis placed into the trough 5 and the operator byturning the crank 2 fprces the feed 6 forward by reason of the split nut11 engaging the screw threaded bar 3 until the feed 6 has reached thespring 19, when the spring forces the separator 17 'into the channel 1'2and releases the screw threaded portion 13 from engagement with thescrew threaded bar, when.

the feed 6 together with the nut may be brought back into position bythe operator adjacent to the crank 2 and the spreader is released bycontact with the end of the box, so that the screw threaded portion 13again engages the screw threaded bar 3 and the operation of slicing maybe repeated.

In a rotatin cutter gearing of the character described, a split nutcomprising a hinged portion attached to; a fixed portion, a spiralspring disposed in said hinged portion and adapted to force and retain,the same against said fixed portion, a bar provided with expanded endsdisposed in appropriate space between the said hinged and fixed portionsand extending beyond said split nut and adapted to engage means to forcesaid bar between said hinged and fixed portion so as to spread said nut,all substantially as set forth.

Witness my signature.

ANTONE GEORGE TOMSICK. f Witnesses:

\ Josnrn A.ToMs1oK,

Manna S. Error-n.

